High Point Furniture Market Adds Outdoor Focus
Next month’s furniture market in High Point, N.C., will be paying special attention to patios.
Read moreNext month’s furniture market in High Point, N.C., will be paying special attention to patios.
Read moreFor the first time at a BrandSource Summit, the group presented an extensive, furniture-focused educational track exclusively for home furnishings members called Furniture Channel.
Read moreAt least three furniture manufacturers, including Stanley Furniture, Hancock & Moore and Wesley Hall, were forced to temporarily suspend some or all operations due to COVID-related disruptions.
Read moreThe headline on Pam Danziger’s Forbes piece makes it sound like it’s all over for independent home furnishings stores, or that it will be over soon enough: “Independent Home Furnishings Retailers Are Losing. Only the Big and Virtual Will Survive.”
Read moreFurniture dealers have an exclusive new source for news, business tools and peer support at BrandSource — Furniture Technology Source (FTS).
Read moreMike Campbell, president/CEO of Leather Italia USA, sat down with AVB’s director of home furnishings merchandising Seth Weisblatt to help kick off the Furniture Channel education track at this week’s Summit 21.
Read moreWith more and more furniture dealers migrating to BrandSource, the group has increased its home furnishings content accordingly for this month’s Summit 21.
Read moreIn a YouTube address that prefaced the recent International Home Furnishing Representatives Association (HFRA) board meeting, executive director and AVB contributor Ray Allegrezza compared the state of the furniture business to the famed opening lines of Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, due to the positive and adverse forces it faces.
Read moreManufacturing powerhouse Ashley Furniture Industries has fired up a brand-new factory in Pottsville, Pa. The 100,000-square-foot facility began production late last month, bringing the company’s U.S. factory count to 12.
Read moreAs more and more furniture dealers migrate to BrandSource, the group has increased its home furnishings content accordingly for this month’s Summit 21.
Read moreTempur Sealy has begun to roll out what it describes as the largest product launch in the company’s 140-year history.
Read moreJust when the home furnishings supply chain was finding its footing, Mother Nature interceded once again.
Read moreRetail sales of home products exploded in January, and mattresses were no exception.
Read moreRoused by another round of stimulus checks and flickers of light at the end of the COVID tunnel, consumers loosened their wallets last month and gave dealers a January to remember.
Read moreDespite the trials, tribulations and component shortages of 2020, Tempur Sealy International reported record financial performance for the year and thanked its retail partners for much of its success.
Read moreThat is the million-dollar — or in the case of the home furnishings industry — the $115 billion question.
Read moreA gummed-up supply chain compounded by unprecedented consumer demand is pushing back furniture orders as much as six months, according to the Home Furnishings Association (HFA), a BrandSource partner.
Read moreSerta’s new entry-level iComfort foam mattress can retail for an unprecedented $999 queen and still deliver 60 points of margin.
Read moreFurniture manufacturers are passing along a second round of price hikes after imposing average cost increases of 4 percent last fall.
Read moreRetail software provider STORIS has compiled a comprehensive look ahead at the furniture industry in 2021.
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